Senior Technical Program Manager

About the role

Altera is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to coordinate and drive the engineering execution behind next-generation FPGA device rollouts. This role requires coordination across multiple engineering disciplines including silicon design, IP, software, firmware, validation, and system enablement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage large, complex technical programs supporting FPGA device development from definition through production rollout.
• Coordinate execution across multiple engineering disciplines including silicon design, IP, software, firmware, validation, and system enablement.
• Develop and maintain detailed program plans, schedules, milestones, and dependency tracking for multi-threaded development efforts.
• Drive alignment across global teams in North America and Asia, ensuring clear ownership, accountability, and communication.
• Identify program risks, critical path issues, and resource constraints; proactively develop and execute mitigation plans.
• Partner closely with engineering, product management, quality, and operations teams to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.
• Implement and continuously improve best-in-class project and program management processes, tools, and reporting mechanisms.
• Facilitate executive-level communication by providing clear status updates, issue escalation, and data-driven decision support.
• Support silicon bring-up, validation, sampling, and production readiness milestones by ensuring cross-functional execution alignment.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. 10+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Program Management, or Engineering Program Leadership roles. 5+ years of technical experience in one of the following areas: Transceivers, Embedded Systems (particularly ARM), Config and Security, PCIe, Ethernet or ASIC Design / DV.
• 8+ years of experience managing complex, cross-functional hardware and software development programs.
• Proven experience leading programs that integrate silicon, hardware, software, firmware, IP, and validation teams.
• 7+ years of experience managing programs across multiple organizations and geographically distributed international teams.
• Strong working knowledge of the full product development lifecycle, including definition, development, verification, sampling, and production rollout.
• Demonstrated ability to build detailed execution plans, manage dependencies, and drive teams to meet aggressive schedules.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Advanced proficiency with project and program management tools used for schedule tracking, risk management, and reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience working directly on FPGA, ASIC, or silicon-based product development programs.
• Hands-on technical background in silicon design, validation, or software/firmware engineering.
• Experience supporting silicon bring-up, validation, or manufacturing readiness phases.
• Familiarity with Agile, hybrid Agile/Waterfall, or scaled execution frameworks in hardware-centric environments.
• Experience presenting program status and execution metrics to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.